Word: copping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sept. 12 wasn't the best day to face charges of killing a cop. That's what lawyers for onetime Black Panther H. Rap Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, figured when they got his trial, for shooting a Georgia deputy sheriff, pushed into next year. "To continue at such a time would be--well, I hate to say suicidal, given what happened on the 11th," says Al-Amin lawyer Jack Martin. "It would be ill advised...
...nearby cop if we should be wearing masks. He shrugs. “I dunno,” he says. “I took my mask off days ago. It’s probably fine if you’re just passing through...
...cop, who probably stands there directing traffic for hours each day, is not just passing through. He doesn’t wear a mask. Real stubborn...
...desperate for escapism. If that mood holds, From Hell, opening this week, may be just what the doctor ordered. Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert...
...city as a vibrant backdrop for other things: boy trouble, girl trouble, any sort of trouble. Sometimes, setting a song in New York can lead to political trouble as well. The terrific twentysomething rock band The Strokes recently pulled a song off their album called "New York City Cops" because of its mocking refrain: "New York City cops - they ain?t too smart". It?s too bad the song was cut (although the song that replaced it was actually better and more inventive). Despite the fact that the song doesn?t fit today?s pro-cop public mood, "New York...